An episode of the short-lived early TV comedy "The Ed Wynn Show". Like many early variety shows, this program has elements of both Vaudeville & Radio. Guests in this episode include Gloria Swanson. Picture quality is sloppy due to bad source material.


This movie is part of the collection: Classic TV

Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: 50s; 1950s; 50's; 1950's; Fifties; TV; Television; Classic TV; Classic Television; Variety Series; Gloria Swanson; Ed Wynn;

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: richgoup - - April 5, 2011
Subject: Episode 27 (The Ed Wynn Show).
Season 1, episode 27.
Original air date: 25 March 1950.
Cast: Charles Laughton (Himself - actor), Bob LeMond (Announcer), Gale Robbins (Herself - Singer), Bill Shirley (Himself - singer), Gloria Swanson (Herself) and Ed Wynn (Host/ performer).
From IMDB.
In television just few weeks after release of SUNSET BOULEVARD. Watch the puppet act of Gloria Swanson and Ed Wynn; a great moment of television.

Reviewer: Earlon - - February 21, 2010
Subject: A catalog site for Classic TV shows
If you like Classic TV from of the 50's, there is a catalog site that makes it easy to watch episodes streaming from Archive.org at:

http://www.solie.org/ClassicTV

There are currently over 400 individual episodes of about 30 different programs, and the site is growing day by day. Check it out!

Reviewer: Seto-Kaiba_Is_Stupid - - September 9, 2009
Subject: Thank You
It took over 40 minutes, and finally, my item has been updated. Along those same lines, I'll review this item I uploaded.

Reasonably decent early TV telecast, certainly not as good as "Texaco Star Theatre" or "The Ed Sullivan Show", but still decent. Gloria appears and is introduced in a comedic manner. Two singers appear and well, sing. The worst commercial of 1950 appears afterwards. This is followed by a sketch with Ed and Gloria playing puppets, it isn't extremnely funny by any means but does bring up how a lot of TV-comedy at this point was very much stage-play based. Final few seconds of telecast are cut off for legal reasons (which I'd rather not go into).